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SUNU: Journal of African Affairs, Critical Thought + Aesthetics #SUNUjournal • #SUNUnotes — a pan-African repository of archival + contemporary material

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Dear friends + supporters,

We are excited to announce that SUNU Journal’s platform is now live. It has been a long journey, but we are here. (Cont’d)

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Notre grande dame Maryse Condé vient de nous faire ses adieux…
Mes sincères condoléances à sa famille en cette douloureuse épreuve. #MaryseConde

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Portraits of members of the African Palestinian community in Jerusalem from the exhibition + book Guardians of the Mosque: African Palestinians of Jerusalem, 2012. Photography by Andrew Courtney. #SUNUnotes #SUNUjournal

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Muhammad Ali attending a Palestinian protest march in Chicago, 29 January 1988. Photograph by Fred Jewell, courtesy of AP.

We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian community, and stand against the ongoing oppression and rights violations Palestinians have been subjected to.

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Under apartheid and its "resettlement" policies, the Z.J.S Ndiamande studio was forced to relocate from its original location to a township called eNhlalakahle. These portraits were taken in the eNhalalakahle studio.

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Potraits from the South African photo studio Z.J.S Ndimande and Sons, ca. 1970s. Z.J.S Ndimande founded his photo studio in KwaZulu Natal (then Greytown) in the 1940s with his son Richard. Richard Ndimande took over the family business from his father in the late 1960s. (cont’d)

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Photos of Hampton ca. 1969, ©Chicago Sun-Times Media, Inc. Via the Chicago History Museum

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Fred Hampton, activist, revolutionary socialist + chairman of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on this day in 1948. On speaking about the The Black Panther Party and their responsibility as the vanguard party, Hampton said:

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And if you’re not about being involved in a people’s revolution then you got to do something. You got to support the people’s revolution” (1969).

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Today marks the 60th anniversary of The March on Washington, August 28th 1963. Photographs taken by Leonard Freed, and published in the book titled This Is the Day: The March on Washington. © Leonard Freed/Magnum Photos

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Notting Hill Carnival, London, ca. 1990-1992. Photographs by Peter Marshall.

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Portraits from the series + book “Portraits de Français,” 2006 by Luc Choquer.

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Photographs taken by Hiroji Kubota while documenting the Black Panthers across America in the 1960s. Images here were taken in Chicago, Illinois ca. 1968-1969.

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Wonderful footage 🖤 Carnival in Guinea Bissao (1982) via @CNRSImages

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@romainlange @Folkways Yes! 🖤✨

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Photographs taken by Lily Franey during Carnival in Guinea Bissau, 1987. The masks are hand-made using paper mâché and are the carnival’s centerpieces. (cont’d)

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During carnival, a children’s parade is one of the main events.

Images + info courtesy of Ashawnta Jackson, via Atlas Obscura.

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